The Dangerous Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1991
Northern Ireland Order in Council 1991 No. 2292 — creates 3 criminal offences.
- Made
- 16 October 1991
- In force from
- 31 October 1991
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Dogs, animals, hunting and wildlife
- Made under
- Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order is made only for purposes corresponding to the purposes of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. The Order imposes restrictions on certain types of fighting dog and provides for restrictions to be imposed on other types of specially dangerous dogs. It also increases the penalties for offences involving attacks by dogs and empowers a court to order the destruction of certain dangerous dogs.
Offences created by this instrument
- Dogs bred for fighting article 25A(7) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Other specially dangerous dogs article 25B(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Disqualification orders article 33A(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1991